SABRINA PIRKER
COMMUNICATION
& GRAPHICDESIGN

Wow. It’s already 3 months ago since I finished my bachelor thesis “How To Make This Book”. Yet, the feedback was enormous. I got the chance to teach the art of bookbinding to a whole bunch of people. But what’s more: They all totally fell for it as well. Hence I promised to publish several tutorials on how to make diverse bindings right here on this very blog. In fact I planned to do such within the year 2014. However, since I recently were more into doing some hands on... Read The Rest →

Christmas time should be the most beautiful season in the year. Yet, for so many people the holiday season is hardly bearable due tot he surplus on work to do. What might help is some christmasy music to listen to, whilst engaging yourself in the still great amounts of work.

Why is it this common that books - in whatever form and with whatever content they may come - are such popular gifts?
What is their very message? Why would you want them in the first place?
In my opinion the printed goods may represent something for us that has the chance to exist forever. Or at least for a rather long undistinguishable period of time. Books may even survive ourselves. Even, or rather, escpecially, in our modern, digital, times more and more out there tend to collect them huntingly as ever before. Some even may write and create their own.